Locking your Android smartphone with a password, PIN or unlock pattern is your first defense against those who would use it for malicious purposes like stealing your info or sending joke texts to your ...

Every modern smartphone comes with some sort of lock screen security to keep the device and its contents secure from the prying eyes from gaining access to your data. Also Read: Samsung Galaxy Folder ...

Android's pattern lock, which lets you unlock your phone by swiping a specific pattern across the screen, may seem more secure than a password, but that's not always the case. While Android's pattern ...

"Pattern lock" is often used together with PIN code and password as unlock method of Android smartphone. However, from the analysis result based on the statistical data of the pattern lock, the ...

Rajesh started following the latest happenings in the world of Android around the release of the Nexus One and Samsung Galaxy S. After flashing custom ROMs and kernels on his beloved Galaxy S, he ...

Fingerprint security is becoming a standard feature on many Android devices, but there's still plenty of people who rely on the trust pattern lock. If you're one of those people you might want to go ...

New documents unearthed on Wednesday show Apple was toying with a gesture-based unlock function for its mobile devices some four years after the idea was introduced in the Android operating system.

The pattern lock system used by millions of Android users to secure their phones can be cracked in just five attempts simply by observing hand movements, security experts have claimed. A study by ...

While Google had touted the security of Android’s pattern unlock mechanism for securing data and information on an Android smartphone–law enforcement officials were unable to crack their way into the ...

One of the treats that immediately set apart the first version of Android from Apple’s iOS software (besides the notification center invoked with a pulldown gesture) is the pattern unlock feature on ...